Report Summary

  • 53

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    70% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

ccac.ca

CCAC - Canadian Council on Animal Care: Home

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

132 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

309 ms

About Website

Welcome to ccac.ca homepage info - get ready to check CCAC best content for Canada right away, or after learning these important things about ccac.ca

The CCAC is the national organization responsible for setting and maintaining standards for the ethical use and care of animals in science in Canada.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ccac.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 132 ms and then it took 2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ccac.ca performance score

53

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

73/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

47/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.4 s

40/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value280 ms

80/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.297

40/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.8 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ccac.ca

132 ms

ccac.ca

347 ms

js

62 ms

styles071023.css

47 ms

nav2024.css

109 ms

Our browser made a total of 45 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 87% of them (39 requests) were addressed to the original Ccac.ca, 4% (2 requests) were made to Netdna.bootstrapcdn.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (942 ms) relates to the external source Fonts.gstatic.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 263.6 kB (4%)

Content Size

7.0 MB

After Optimization

6.8 MB

In fact, the total size of Ccac.ca main page is 7.0 MB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 6.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 27.8 kB

  • Original 35.3 kB
  • After minification 31.4 kB
  • After compression 7.5 kB

HTML content can be minified and compressed by a website’s server. The most efficient way is to compress content using GZIP which reduces data amount travelling through the network between server and browser. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 3.9 kB, which is 11% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 27.8 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 101.0 kB

  • Original 6.8 MB
  • After minification 6.7 MB

Image size optimization can help to speed up a website loading time. The chart above shows the difference between the size before and after optimization. CCAC images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 78.1 kB

  • Original 120.2 kB
  • After minification 117.9 kB
  • After compression 42.1 kB

It’s better to minify JavaScript in order to improve website performance. The diagram shows the current total size of all JavaScript files against the prospective JavaScript size after its minification and compression. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 78.1 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 56.7 kB

  • Original 67.7 kB
  • After minification 50.8 kB
  • After compression 11.0 kB

CSS files minification is very important to reduce a web page rendering time. The faster CSS files can load, the earlier a page can be rendered. Ccac.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 56.7 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (38%)

Requests Now

40

After Optimization

25

The browser has sent 40 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of CCAC. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

ccac.ca accessibility score

96

Accessibility Issues

Names and labels

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

ccac.ca best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

ccac.ca SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Mobile Friendly

Make sure your pages are mobile friendly so users don’t have to pinch or zoom in order to read the content pages. [Learn more](https://developers.google.com/search/mobile-sites/).

Impact

Issue

High

Document uses legible font sizes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Ccac.ca can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Ccac.ca main page’s claimed encoding is utf-8. Use of this encoding format is the best practice as the main page visitors from all over the world won’t have any issues with symbol transcription.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of CCAC. Lack of Open Graph description can be counter-productive for their social media presence, as such a description allows converting a website homepage (or other pages) into good-looking, rich and well-structured posts, when it is being shared on Facebook and other social media. For example, adding the following code snippet into HTML <head> tag will help to represent this web page correctly in social networks: